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• Roth: “No weapons should be sold to Turkey” 

  A HDP committee held meetings about Afrin in the Federal German Parliament today. Parliamentary Vice President Claudia Roth held a joint press conference with the committee and said, “No weapons should be sold to Turkey.”
• Youth of Manbij ready for mobilization for Afrin 

  Manbij Youth Assembly announced that they are ready for the mobilization they had declared at their 1st congress.
• ANHA: “Turkish army used cluster bombs in Afrin” 

  The invading Turkish army has used cluster bombs in their attacks against Afrin’s Jindirese district and Kefer Sefrê and other neighboring villages therein.
• Final resolution for Sochi announced 

  The conference organized by Russia in Sochi with grand promises had the demand that the Syrian people “determine their own fate through elections” come to the fore, while stressing the need to maintain the territorial integrity of the country.
• Die Linke MPs send joint solidarity message to Afrin 

  One of the groups in the Federal Parliament in Germany Die Linke’s MPs have sent a message in condemnation of the Turkish state attacks via a group photograph in solidarity with the Afrin resistance.
• Turkish soldiers wound a civilian in Tal Abyad 

  Turkish soldiers opened fire and wounded a civilian in El Carx village near Tal Abyad (Gıre Spi), northern Syria.
• Historic racism in Turkish football, Naki receives another ban 

  Amedspor football team player Deniz Naki has been banned from football for 3 years and 6 months, and given 273 thousand TL punitive fine.
• Ankara sent Berlin a note for the German tanks used against Afrin 

  Despite the Federal German Government’s statements on the use of Leopard II tanks in the attacks against Afrin, it has come to light that Ankara had sent a notice to Berlin last week.
• Action plan for Afrin across Germany 

  Protests against the invasion war of the Turkish army against Afrin Canton of Northern Syria will continue in Germany.
• 11 doctors calling for peace against Afrin operation detained 

  Administrators and members of Turkish Medical Association (TTB) who were pointed as a target by Turkish President Erdogan for calling for peace against Afrin operation, have been detained.
• Nine jailed for calling for peace against Afrin operation 

  Of the 11 people who were detained for calling for peace against Turkey’s Afrin operation on social media, nine have been jailed and two have been released on condition of judicial control.
• Demonstration for Afrin at German Government press conference 

  A group of young people protesting against the Turkish state’s use of German weapons in Afrin invasion staged a demonstration at a press conference of German Federal Government.
• HDP calls for international action to stop the invasion of Afrin 

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) condemned Turkey’s invasion of Afrin region in Northern Syria in collaboration with mostly Salafi/jihadist Syrian militia and invited the international community to take immediate action to stop it.
• CENTCOM: US troops will not withdraw from Manbij 

  U.S. troops will not withdraw from Manbij, Northern Syria, Gen. Joseph Votel, the commander of the United States Central Command, told CNN International.
• 3000 year old Ayn Dara temple damaged by Turkish army 

  The Ayn Dara temple near Afrin’s Ayn Dara village, built before 1300 B.C, has been severely damaged in the TAF air strike.
• "Turkey commits a crime and Russia is after its own interests" 

  Russian human rights activist, lawyer Maria Bast accused Turkey of violating international law by attacking Afrin and said, “On the other hand Russia has the mentality that is based on the principle that says everything’s fair on the way to victory”.
• Majority of Germans oppose arms trade to Turkey 

  Majority of Germans oppose Berlin’s arms trade agreements with Turkey, an online survey revealed.
• State TV confesses that Turkish army targets civilians in Afrin 

  Turkish official state TV TRT has confessed that the Turkish army is targeting civilians in Afrin in the ongoing invasion operation against the canton.
• SDF: Kevire Ker Hill cleared of invaders 

  Kevire Ker Hill in Raco district of Afrin was cleared of invading Turkish army and its gangs, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
• Turkish media and war 

  Media in Turkey is backing Erdoğan's war propaganda.
• Solidarity demonstrations for Afrin across Europe  

  Tens of thousands of people in dozens of European cities took to the streets to protest against the Turkish war of aggression in northern Syria under the slogan "Everywhere Afrin, everywhere resistance".
• Demonstration in solidarity with Afrin in Washington 

  Kurds and their supporters marched from the State Department to the White House on Friday, taking to the streets to call on the international community to break its silence, support Afrin’s resistance, and condemn Turkish fascism.
• “Presidential election campaign started with the Afrin invasion" 

  HDP Foreign Relations Officer Hişyar Özsoy spoke in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and called the attack against Afrin an “invasion attempt” and a “part of the presidential campaign”.
• YPG-YPJ fighters in Deir ez-Zor: We are ready for Afrin too 

  YPG and YPJ fighters state that they are ready to take their place in Afrin against the Turkish state and gave the message, "The Kurdish people will prevail".
• Soldiers struck in Raco transported to hospitals in Hatay, Kilis 

  The casualties in the intense clashes on the border of Hatay and Afrin’s Raco district have been transported to hospitals in Hatay and Kilis with ambulances.